Snow & Ice Festival

Harbin a city made
of ice, famed for its gigantic illuminated sculptures which covers more than
750,000 square meters and features up to 180,000 cubic meters of ice is the largest ice and snow festival in the world.

At first participants in the festival
were mainly Chinese, however it has since become an international festival and
competition, with 18 million visitors. The festival includes the world’s
biggest ice sculptures.

The best time to
go is at night, when sculptures are illuminated with LED lights.

Quebec Winter Carnival

When: Usually starts every year on the last weekend of January and continues for 2 weeks.

The Quebec Winter Carnival, held in Quebec City since 1894 is
the world’s biggest winter fair and has given the locals and many guests
motivation to celebrate and enjoy cold winters. This yearly occasion goes on
for 17 days and is held between the end of January to mid-February.

The most popular attractions of this winter celebration are the
evening time and daytime marches driven by mascot Bonhomme Carnaval (Bonhomme
is a large snowman sporting a red cap and black
buttons). The parades twist through the upper city, brightened for the
event with lights and ice models. Some popular
activities at the carnival are the Arctic Spa Village, Snow slides, Giant Table
Soccer games, Ice palace, Ice tower, snow rafting and skating, Bistro, Zip
line, snow sculpture and canoe races.